Desperate Parents Stumble Upon Floating Clinic

It was day one at the YWAM clinics in Gauri when Alai* arrived with her parents.
 Alai had been sick with a critically high fever for two days and her parents were paddling in their dugout canoe to the nearest aid post to seek help. On their way, they saw the YWAM Medical Ship stopped at Gauri to deliver free medical services.
Dr Cassie saw the little girl and knew immediately she was in a bad way. “Her fever was very high, 39.6 degrees,” Dr Cassie said, “Her eyes were dull and her body was very limp.”
 It became clear very quickly that Alai was suffering from malaria. At five years old and severely undernourished, her body was struggling to recover from the relatively common disease.
When the body struggles to recover from malaria, or it goes untreated, it can go to the head and cause seizures or stroke from high fever, often enough going so far as to claim life.
 Alai was not far off these situations, but the large boat in the river which her parents found on the way to the local aid post, could’ve well been the thing that saved her life. She was given immediate malaria treatment, which will help her body recover rapidly, and is on her way home to continue to grow as a happy, healthy five year old girl.